Leeds, the capital of the North, is joining London, Chicago, Barcelona, Madrid, Kuala Lumpur, Ho Chi Minh, Jakarta and Rio de Janeiro as a host city for Big Data Week 2016 – the Global Festival of Data. Since they do things differently up north, they’re giving it a personal touch, hosting events across the city,... Read More
This blog post is part of the Big Data Week Speaker interviews series. Roland shares his thoughts about the impact of big data in the public transport field, also offering a sneak peek into his talk at the “Big Data in Use” Conference. Why is it important for businesses in your industry to be more data driven nowadays?... Read More
Community posts are submitted by members of the Big Data Community and span a range of themes. No longer ring-fenced by the IT department, big data has well and truly become part of marketing’s remit. A deluge of data flowing from the ever-increasing number of offline and online media, coupled with rapid changes in consumer... Read More
This is a guest post written by Scott Raspa. He works at IKANOW, a big data software company, where he is involved in the company’s sales and marketing efforts supporting public and private sector clients. He can be found on Twitter @sraspa. Big Data is the biggest trend in IT right now, however the term is loosely... Read More
This is a guest post written by Jagadish Thaker in 2013. Hadoop is changing the perception of handling Big Data especially the unstructured data. Let’s know how Apache Hadoop software library, which is a framework, plays a vital role in handling Big Data. Apache Hadoop enables surplus data to be streamlined for any distributed processing system... Read More
It won’t be long before the amount of data produced by machines surpasses the amount of data produced by all humankind combined. That’s a lot of data! Most of this will be streaming in from the IoT, or Internet of Things, which has either gone mainstream or is on the very verge of doing so.... Read More